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  25 Feb 2011

  Conditionally Hide a Button on a Table Control Row

  There comes a time when a record reaches a stage where no more editing should be performed. In this example, I have set up a dummy invoice, marked it as paid and using a small amount of code in the controls file, removed the edit button from ...

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  Posted by: Ricci Stein

  Tags: Visual Studio 2010 , Coding

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  07 Feb 2011

  Using Formulas In Iron Speed - Part 1

  Rather than having to write your own custom code, Iron Speed provides you with the functionality to be able to use their new Formula's Tab. There are many things that can be done with this, such as computing values on the fly, concatenating string values and assigning ...

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  Posted by: Ricci Stein

  Tags: Formula , Code Generation , Iron Speed V7 , Iron Speed

• 25 Nov 2010

  Iron Speed InternalName/UniqueName

  Retrieving records using built in Iron Speed methods are very useful when you need to run a query or getting a record object back. However, we recently spotted a potential issue when constructing where clauses and passing those into method calls. For example, using FieldName.uniqename in the ...

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  Posted by: Ricci Stein

  Tags: fields

• 17 Nov 2010

  Iron Speed and Field Naming Issues

  Until recently, we have been using SQL Server 2005 and have moved to SQL Server 2008R2. One of our databases has a view where a column in this view has a '.' in the alias, which has been unnoticed. For Example column1 as [colmn1.] While scanning for ...

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  Posted by: Ricci Stein

  Tags: Iron Speed V7

• 11 Oct 2010

  Using Views in Iron Speed

  Views can be very handy when you would like to pull data from two or more tables, for example, to see all customers that have placed an order. For customers that have placed more than one order, performing a left join on customers will return multiple customers ...

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  Posted by: Ricci Stein

  Tags: t-sql , Iron Speed V7 , Iron Speed V6

• 04 Oct 2010

  Using Iron Speed Business Layer

  Periodically, Iron Speed MVP's must submit a technical article to the Iron Speed. This time round, we will have a look at using the Business_Layer Iron Speed generates to control validation, rather than copying/pasting the same code around everywhere that needs it. This means that all validation ...

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  Posted by: Ricci Stein

  Tags: Visual Studio , validation , Iron Speed V7

• 06 Sep 2010

  Iron Speed Code Customizations, casting data types.

  Iron Speed builds in validation for certain controls such as DateTime checks for columns in your database with that particular data type. But, when writing your own custom code, there are methods for performing these checks manually.   For instance, lets say there is a text box ...

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  Posted by: Ricci Stein

  Tags: Visual Studio , Iron Speed V7

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  01 Sep 2010

  Finding a control on a page

  Quite often, you will need to be able to get at a field value on a page but you may be in a different class, and naturally you will not be able to "see" the control that you require, as the control is registered in a different ...

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  Posted by: Ricci Stein

  Tags: Visual Studio , Iron Speed V7 , Iron Speed V6

• 16 Jul 2010

  Ajax Control Tool Kit and Iron Speed

  After having created your pages using Iron Speed, users can enter anything into a free text field, which may be something completely intentional. For example, there could be a field on the page titled "Description", presumably additional information relating to a particular record. You may wish that ...

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  Posted by: Ricci Stein

  Tags: AJAX , Iron Speed V6

• 11 Jun 2010

  Getting values from database columns using Ironspeed

  Constructing a where clause in Iron Speed is a straight forward and painless process. In Visual Studio, when overriding any of the base methods, it is essential to be able to compare the value of a column that needs to have some sort of test to determine ...

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  Posted by: Ricci Stein

  Tags: Visual Studio , Iron Speed V6

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